#wc23

Mitchell Marsh

Marcus Stoinis

Cam Green

Ashton Agar

Travis Head

Glenn Maxwell

Sean Abbott

Pat Cummins

but what the spanish federation is doing to jenni hermoso is some of the most infuriating, disgusting, vile, behaviour I have seen in football.

jenni hermoso was sexually assaulted by luis rubiales, president of the spanish football federation (RFEF). he kissed her without her consent, which is sexual assault. period.

and then rubiales and the RFEF have the unmitigated gall to say that not only was it "consensual", but that hermoso is lying for saying that she was assaulted.

they are saying that a victim of sexual assault, AN ASSAULT THAT WAS CAUGHT ON INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION, WITH MILLIONS OF WITNESSES, is lying.

luis rubiales and the RFEF want to sue jenni for standing up for herself and for daring to fight back. the people on twitter (mostly men, and that doesn't surprise me) are analysing her body language to justify it and say that she wanted it.

why is the victim's word not enough? why is her integrity the one under scrutiny, rather than the attacker? if a woman whose assault was caught in full view on camera with millions of witnesses will not be believed, what does that say about us?

"why didn't she fight back?"

"she should have said something."

"she could have spoken up right after."

"we believe victims, they should speak up."

"well no one saw it."

"don't you see that she wanted it?"

we always, ALWAYS, say shit like this, and we are doing it now, when the evidence is literally staring us in our faces.

fuck the RFEF, and fuck everyone who refuses to believe jenni hermoso.

.....and here we have another example of bad referring. Like yeah, it is kind of fun, but this is an automatic red card offense.

Just so we're all clear, other moments that go in the "bad reffing" column:

VAR reviews that last that long are usually a sign that the offense was not "clear and obvious" like they're supposed to be.

There were numerous instances of time wasting by Spain in the second half. Like that corner kick at 90'+3', geez.

Paralluelo should have received a second yellow for this moment (it's just a screencap) where the ball goes out of bounds, off her, and then she kicks it out again in frustration. You can literally see the ref reaching for her yellow card and then backs off? What the hell. Also her own reaction was pathetic, don't act like you don't know why the ref is glaring at you (I just hate when players do that).

There were plenty of moments where a foul should have been given and wasn't, or was given when there wasn't that bad of an offense.

I know I probably just sound like a hater and/or an trying to find ways to justify why the team I like more should have won, so two things:

Some of the penalty shot behavior from the English team was uncalled for. Like as fun as Mary Earps screaming "fuck off" is, that's also a cardable offense. And so was whatever the hell Bronze was doing to Hermoso, which was kind of dumb.

I'll say there appeared to be consistency from the ref for the most part, but her choices of what counts as a foul and what doesn't were bad.